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2015-03-21
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Mysteriously hidden below a staircase through a subtle "shopfront" on busy Queen's Road Central is this canto restro, equally abstruse is the basis on which the Michelin star was given. We certainly must have chosen all the wrong dishes (eg should have had abalone, shark fin soup?) to completely appreciate what it really has to offer.Setting - quite different from what you would expect of a canto retro, it's decor is a sea of unconventional white, there could also be other colours such as the gr
Setting - quite different from what you would expect of a canto retro, it's decor is a sea of unconventional white, there could also be other colours such as the grey wallpaper with design of a padded wall, but I could really remember white because the restro was also very, and I mean seriously very, brightly lit with what could only be thought as white shade bulbs or fluorescent as if it could make up for the forbidden sunlight in a basement location.
Food - average.
We tried 5 dishes for sharing among the four of us. None of them stood out. The only dish that we thought was more than ok was the chicken pieces fried in a shrimp paste batter; however it led us down after a few bites to find some undercooked, if not uncooked, pieces buried in the heap. Here's what we had for dinner:
- Mixed mushrooms fried with black truffle paste: bland, unless the mushrooms and black truffle paste are from exotic sources which otherwise were not made known to us.
- Brocoli with dried oysters, sausage and mushroom: insipid. It only surprised us on how parsimonious they could get with the dried oysters, mushroom and sausage.
- Chicken fried in a shrimp paste batter with cucumber sticks: the only interesting dish of the night with tender pieces of chicken whch married well with the distinct taste of the shrimp paste. However, it didn't fail to disappoint us by showcasing pieces of undercooked chicken.
- Fried rice cake with Kimchi: serving Korean in a canto restro is in itself out of the ordinary, but taste of the dish is uninspiring otherwise.
- Steamed pork party with salted fish: it's ok but the devil's in the details. We didn't like the fact that they put water chestnut in the patty but failed to mention it in the menu (but did so for the other kind of steamed pork party on offer; in fact that was the reason why we picked this over the other because one of us doesn't eat the fruit).
Beverages - the wine list is surprisingly brief. In addition, the fresh juices which are listed on the menu were in fact not on offer.
Service - servicing provided by the team of servers who apparently had worked at top tier restaurants such as Sun Tung Lok was generally courteous.
Price - $1,500 for four including a bottle of wine is not expensive at all. Perhaps we would feel even more so that the meal was good value for money if the retro hasn't boasted about the star so overly much as it encouraged unnecessarily high expectations.
Complimentary dessert
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Chicken fried in shrimp paste batter
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Steamed pork patty with salted fish
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Fried rice cake with Kimchi
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Chicken fried in a shrimp paste batter
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Broccoli with dried oysters and sausage
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Fried mushrooms with black truffle paste
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